Jul 4 Pygame Adventures Part 2

I wanted to learn how to have two separate sections that behaved differently, so I added a little area to display the score. And a second character, so there’d be some purpose to having a score. It’s still not the world’s most exciting game, but there’s at least some element of competition now. And now I know how to have multiple surfaces in pygame.

Adding a second character turned out to be trivial, which made me feel pretty good about my previous over-engineered object oriented life choices.

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